Photo by Lauren P. Marino.
PETA, the love-em-or-leave-em animals rights organization known for their attention-grabbing tactics, will grab some attention today by deploying women wearing lettuce to Capitol Hill.
Women in lettuce bikinis (which aren’t actually made of lettuce) will stand outside the Rayburn House Office Building beginning at noon today to hand out vegan hot dogs to members of Congress and their staff.
“Policymakers who take a veggie dog from PETA’s sexy vegetarians won’t just get a free lunch—they’ll also see for themselves how trim and sexy vegetarian bodies can be,” Tracy Reiman, PETA’s executive vice president, said in a press release. “Vegetarian meals are a great way to shrink your waistline and your carbon footprint—and they’re kinder to animals, too.”
PETA last tried to change Washington’s eating habits by asking the White House’s chef to humanely stun lobsters before cooking them. That call went unanswered, probably because PETA didn’t put any crustaceans in lettuce bikinis.